Welding - Madison Area Technical College

Welding from Madison Area Technical College is a Campus Certificate Engineering General degree that prepares you for a Engineering career. About: This program emphasizes hands-on training and the mastery of welding techniques with manual and semi-automatic welding processes. Students develop their technical knowledge of blueprint reading, layout, metal fabrication, metallurgy and manipulative welding skills for potential qualification or certification in oxy-fuel, stick-electrode, gas-metal arc, flux-cored arc and gas-tungsten arc processes in all positions on plate and pipe. Welders and metal fabricators lay out, shape, form, tack and weld metal assemblies or products according to various welding codes and procedures. They produce fabricated assemblies, perform repair and maintenance welding , and work on construction projects. During fabrication of these products, students are trained in the use of hand and power tools used in the welding fabrication industry. Program Outcomes: Safety Awareness 1. Use safe working techniques and working practices that comply with O.S.H.A. requirements. Employability Skills and Practices 2. Demonstrate abilities which contribute to employment by displaying flexibility, self-motivation, time efficiency, effective written and oral communication, and by contributing to work team success. Career Advancement Skills and Personal Initiative 3. Demonstrate career advancement skills by engaging in problem solving, time management, and shop management practices. Technical Welding Skills 4. Demonstrate knowledge, set-up, and correct operation of commonly used welding equipment. Basic Metallurgy and Properties/Identification of Metals 5. Understand and apply metallurgy concepts and principals to common welding and metal fabrication processes. Technical Metal Fabrication Skills 6. Understand and demonstrate basic metal fabrication functions. View more details on Madison Area Technical College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Engineering General courses.